Mr. Snape, not Saint Snape

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 135747


> When Albus tells Snape "you know what I must now ask you to do" at 
> the end of GOF, that conversation doesn't pick up again, in our
> information, until Hagrid's overheard convesation "what if I don't
> want to do it anymore?" This, I submit, is what Snape and Dumbledore
> are talking about. Not the Unbreakable Vow, because the language
> doesnt't fit that scenario AT ALL.
> 
> dan

Valky:
I agree with that actually, Dan. I believe the part in the argument
that is most likely to be a reference to the Unbreakable Vow is where
Snape accuses DD of taking too much for granted.

At the end of HBP, I think it becomes evident that Snape did not share
the details of his Unbreakable Vow with Dumbledore. Dumbledore says to
Malfoy "Of course that is what he would tell you Draco, but-" Which
can quite clearly be read as an indication that DD didn't know about
the UV, except for the "but" which we never actually get to hear
thanks to Malfoy's interruption, which may have indicated that DD was
aware that Snape had comprimised his position in some way related to
this promise. Harry did, after all, tell DD that he heard Snape say he
had made an Unbreakable Vow, *before* the argument in the forest. 

Given this, it is likely that when Dumbledore and Snape argued in the
forest Dumbledore was hoping for Snape to confess his UV, DD never
directly asks these things, as we know. It was probably something
like, "Is there something you wish to tell me Severus..." Whereupon
Snape says yeah I don't want to do this anymore kick me out let me go,
whatever just get me away from you or he says, there's nothing
Dumbledore I just don't like doing this job anymore. You choose which
you like. But in any case Snape accuses Dumbledore of taking something
for granted and says he wants out, so both lead to the same thing,
Dumbledores massive brainpower was accumulating plenty of evidence
about Snape and he *made* Snape go through with it even though he
*did* know there was something else to it, even though Snape, the
Snape he trusted and believed was loyal, didn't want to stick around
for it. Dumbledore continues to say I trust Severus completely, even
after SS says he wants out when DD prods him to confess his UV. You
can add this together anyway you want, but its the way DD added it
that matters. Why assume he came up a total of Snape's fears are
unfounded or that Snape would never have made the Unbreakable Vow?
That doesn't seem incredibly Dumbledorish to me. 

Also Hagrid says that Dumbledore was angry with Snape, but he doesn't
tell us Dumbledore's actual angry words. Could they be, "You will do
as you have promised, Severus." And while Snape thought Dumbledore was
talking about the promise he had made to DD, Dumbledore knew that he,
himself, was actually talking about the Unbreakable Vow.